Lukas MacNaughton, the fashion architect turned footballer who almost brought down Messi with a criminal kick

Lukas MacNaughton was born in New York, raised in Belgium and raised in Toronto. He dedicated himself to football and was about to play in the 2022 World Cup with Canada, but he is also a model and architect. However, his life can be summed up in ten words: the man who almost broke Messi with an iron.

As if he were David Chapman pounced on John Lennon, this rustic defender hitherto anonymous pointed the sole of his right foot towards Lionel’s left shin, to begin the one of the most violent kicks who remember the Argentine star.

Lionel reveled like never before, and the hearts of the entire planet were paralyzed watching this tournament called CONCACAF Champions Trophy but it is known how Concacampioni although to be honest it is more “Conca” than “Champions”, its European similarity.

The latter explains why the blond MacNaughton He didn’t even see the yellow cardand that VAR let such an “attempted murder” pass at the feet of the number 3 defender, as if he played in Barracas Central and was managed by Ezeiza.

Messi was saved, but so was Lukas, who avoided earning the hatred of the whole world. In a week he will travel to Fort Lauderdale with his team for the rematch of the 2-2 draw in Nashville.

Footballer, architect and model

Lukas MacNaughton almost had the worst birthday of his life. This March 8th he will turn 29 and there will be no major damage to the physique of the best in the world to regret.

His Wikipedia file talks about a multicultural globetrotter. Son of an Austrian mother and a Canadian father, he was born and lived until the age of 7 in New York until moving to Brussels, on the other side of the Atlantic.

In Belgium he gave life to his passion for football, being part of the Royale Union Rixensartoise youth school. They didn’t see the conditions as sufficient to play in the First Division. That’s why, at the age of 16, he packed his bags again and returned to the Americas, now to go and study in his fatherland, more precisely in Toronto.

When he saw how the Canadians played, he felt confident in joining his college team. At first they didn’t pay much attention to him, he asked for the coach after a match and they told him he wasn’t there. I couldn’t believe it. They then advised him to return a few months later for a trial and he, introverted and “foreigner”, seemed to resign himself to having to consider football as a recreational activity.

Lukas, however, explains that it was enough for him to say that he was from Belgium to give him the opportunity to participate in training, and in his first weekend (due to a teammate breaking down on the bus on the way to the game) he already played. title. The following year he was already captain.

From university football he moved to the Canadian championship, and then made the leap to the MLS with the Toronto FC shirt, one of the four franchises from that country that compete in the championship dominated by American teams.

While he built his football career step by step, he also did the same off the pitch and graduated as an architect. In fact, he worked in that role for a few months before signing his first contract in Canada.

Called up by the national team which played its first World Cup in 36 years, Lukas MacNaughton participated in the friendly matches preceding the event in Qatar but was excluded from the final list which traveled to the Middle East.

He arrived at Nashville SC in mid-2023 and quickly joined the team that reached the League Cup final, where they lost on penalties to Inter Miami. Luka posted a photo next to Messi in his nets as a bittersweet reminder of that night of defeat.

His profile also includes a fashion side. Lukas MacNaughton is one of the models of Sutherland modelsa Canadian agency that displays his photography portfolio online and presents him as a 1.85 meter tall soccer player, with size 11 shoes, blue eyes and blond hair, among other descriptions.

In the bio it will be necessary to add his sudden fame on a global scale for his football to Messi.